The Sophos ™ Email Appliance offers the best and most reliable gateway protection, while setting a new standard for effective and efficient management.
Sophos appliances draw on twenty years of experience in enterprise threat management, delivering world-class threat protection
in a compact and easy-to-manage format.

Use the Search tab to search the quarantine and logs. Select the type of search to perform from the top drop-down list on
the Search In sidebar. Different Search Parameters are displayed, depending on the type of search selected.

Certain predefined policy variables are available for use in banners and headers. Others can be used only with certain
types of rules. In addition, there are variables that are designed specifically for use in the SPX Template wizard.

A warning message was displayed because you have edited the text on the Recipient Instructions page of the SPX Template Wizard,
and it no longer matches the end user password options selected on the Password Options page of the wizard.

The Dashboard tab provides a quick overview of Email Appliance activity and status in six panels.

Dashboard

The Dashboard tab provides a quick overview of Email Appliance activity and status in six panels.

Summary Statistics

The Summary Statistics has four subpanels.

Note The View data for panel is only visible when
the appliance is part of a cluster. You can select whether the information shown on
the dashboard displays data from the entire cluster, or from a specific appliance in
the cluster.

The Message Volume Today panel displays information about the
messages processed in the last 24 hours. Messages are broken in to five
categories:

Blocked: Number of messages blocked by the appliance as a
percentage of the total number of messages and number of messages blocked by the
appliance.

Invalid Recipient: Number of messages with invalid
recipients as a percentage of the total number of messages and number of
messages with invalid recipients .

Spam: Number of messages identified as having high or
medium spam scores as a percentage of the total number of messages and number of
messages identified as having high or medium spam scores.

Virus : Number of messages containing viruses today since
midnight as a percentage of the total number of messages and number of messages
containing viruses today since midnight.

DKIM: Number of messages which failed DKIM verification
as a percentage of the total number of messages and Number of messages which
failed DKIM verification.

SPF: Number of messages having an invalid mail sender as
a percentage of the total number of messages and number of messages having an
invalid mail sender.

DMARC: Number of messages which have failed DMARC
verification as a percentage of the total number of messages and number of
messages which failed DMARC verification.

Other: Number of all other messages.

The Average Daily Message Volume panel displays the daily mean
number of messages processed since system startup, both per-user and for all
users.

Blocked: Average number of messages blocked by the
appliance.

Invalid Recipient: Average number of messages with
invalid recipients.

Spam: Average number of messages identified as having
high or medium spam scores.

Virus : Average number of messages containing viruses
today since midnight.

DKIM: Average number of messages which failed DKIM
verification.

SPF: Average number of messages having invalid mail
sender.

DMARC: Average number of messages which failed DMARC
verification.

Other: Average number of all other messages.

The Quarantine and Mail Queue panel displays information
about the number of queued messages.

Quarantine Capacity: Total capacity of the quarantine
expressed as a percentage.

Quarantine Age: The length of time, in days, of the
difference between the oldest message in the quarantine and the current date and
time.

Queued Messages: The total number of messages currently
in the queue.

Note If you are running multiple appliances in a cluster, and you have elected to view
summary statistics for the entire cluster, Quarantine
Capacity and Quarantine Age amounts are
prefixed with a ~ to indicate the data has been collected
from the entire cluster. This prefix does not appear if you are viewing information
from a single machine in the cluster.

The Delay Queue panel displays information about the
processing of delayed messages.

Today: Total number of messages delayed today.

Capacity: Total capacity used of the maximum allowed
delay queue storage, expressed as a percentage.

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System Console

The System Console panel displays indicators (both text and
icons) for virus updates, Delay Queue, Sandstorm and the post-configuration status
of the appliance.

Post-Configuration Checklist: (temporary): Indicates that
the items on the Quick Tasks sidebar have not been
cleared. Click Post-Configuration Checklist to view the
Configuration Homepage. Once every item in the
checklist is cleared by clicking the “x” beside each one, the initial page
of the Configuration tab changes, and this link
disappears.

Sandstorm: Displays status of the Sandstorm feature: On
or Off. Click Sandstorm to go to the Sandstorm page at Configuration > Policy > Sandstorm.

Virus and Spam Counts

The Virus and Spam Counts panel displays the following
information:

Blocked: Total number of messages blocked by the
appliance.

Spam: Total number of messages identified as having high
or medium spam scores.

Viruses: Total number of messages identified as
containing viruses since the initial system configuration.

Total: Total number of messages identified as containing
undesirable content.

Note The Total counter includes all types of messages received,
and is not a total of the other counters shown in this panel.

Mail Velocity

The Mail Velocity section displays the following gauges:

Messages/hour: Number of messages currently being
processed by the Email Appliance system. As
the message volume varies, the scale of the gauge will adapt to maintain easy
readability. Holding your mouse pointer over the gauge will display a tooltip
with detailed message volume information.

Message Latency: Average latency or delay that Email Appliance message processing is adding to
the delivery of the messages, expressed as the average number of seconds that
messages are delayed. Holding your mouse pointer over the gauge will display a
tooltip with detailed message latency information.

Mail Volume Today

On the bottom right of the Dashboard are five line graphs measuring blocked messages,
spam, viruses, mail flow, and delayed messages. The white fill area indicates recent
daily traffic flow, while the red line represents a running 7-day average. If the
white area graphs higher than the red area, the Email Appliance could be dealing with a mail spike or a virus
outbreak. If the red line is above the white area, this could indicate a connection
or relay problem.

The Mail Volume Today panel displays two types of information
on each of the five graphs.

The two types of information are:

White area: The current day’s mail volume since
midnight.

Red line: The average mail volume over the last
week.

These two types of information are displayed for each of the following five
graphs:

Blocked: The total number of messages blocked.

Spam: The percentage of the total number of processed
messages that are classified as spam.

Viruses: The percentage of the total number of processed
messages that are classified as infected with one or more viruses.

Mail Volume: The total number of messages processed.

Delayed Volume: The number of delayed messages
processed.

Sophos Sandstorm

The Sandstorm Analysis for Today panel displays information
about the messages analyzed by Sandstorm in the last 24 hours. Messages are broken
in to four categories:

Malicious Files: Number of messages that Sandstorm marked
as malicious.

Clean Files: Number of messages that Sandstorm marked as
clean.

Files Awaiting Analysis: Number of messages in the
Sandstorm queue, waiting for analysis.

Total Files Analyzed : Number of messages analyzed by
Sandstorm in the last 24 hours (the sum of malicious and clean files).